Good morning! It’s one of the last gasps of cold air today. Gov. Andrew Cuomo is at the Capitol, no further details provided, where lawmakers will return by the afternoon. There was talk of quick action this week on redistricting, but we still haven’t seen any printed bills. Absent a message of necessity that almost certainly won’t come, that means no dice. Also today, SUNY students will protest at the Capitol and officials from The Innocence Project will make their case for revisions to the expanded DNA databank. Here are this morning’s headlines…

The second draft of legislative districts is being held up as lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo try to reach global redistricting deal. There will be a public hearing today on the lines for Congress. (TU)

Michael Gormley writes “The latest hope of overhauling New York politics by creating more competitive elections rests with closed-door horse trading this week by the Legislature’s powerful leaders and Gov. Andrew Cuomo,” and that a vote could come “today, Tuesday or Wednesday.” (AP)

The New York Times denounced an “utterly sleazy” deal for a redistricting constitutional amendment: The lawmakers also can’t be trusted to draw their own districts. Mr. Cuomo should veto their next offering — and make clear that he will keep on vetoing. Then the courts should take over. (NYT; link fixed)

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, with leaders from New Jersey and Connecticut: With the cost of living so high, it is absurd to expect a working person, let alone a working family, to afford rent, groceries, clothing, heating, phone, transportation and day care on $290 per week.//It is time that we reassessed the value of work. And while Connecticut is one of the 18 states with a minimum wage above the federal level, at $8.25 an hour it still keeps working families stuck in poverty. (TU)

“Government is not supposed to be a debating society, or a popularity contest. It’s not thinking about the next step up the ladder. We run a service bureau here. It’s my job to make the government perform, to deliver for you. That is what I tend to focus on, not things that don’t matter,” Cuomo told a gushing Mike Lupica. (DN)

The state’s pension fund has nearly doubled the amount it spends to Wall Street firms for financial management, according to a Senate Independent Democratic Conference study obtained early by Fred Dicker. (NYP)

Ben Wieder: A Stateline analysis of 13 states that have legalized casinos, racetrack casinos, known as racinos, or lotteries in the past 10 years found that more than two-thirds of them failed to live up to the initial promises or projections made by political and industry champions of legalizing gambling. That doesn’t account for inflation or the cost of any of the potential negative consequences of gambling, such as increased addiction or crime, that are often cited by opponents of legalization. (Stateline)

One of the questions Cuomo ignored during an online chat — about the flight-speed of a swallow, an old Monty Python gag — was actually submitted by one of his daughters. Cuomo aides declined to say which one, but I will right here and now proclaim that SHE IS AMAZING. (TU)

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